Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 23 Dec 1998 02:05:19 -0300 | From | Horacio J. Peña <> | Subject | Re: Wanted: Secure-delete utility for Linux |
| |
¡Hola!
> I suspect that it would be very safe to write random data over > a file several times. > Unfortunately the current /dev/random and /dev/urandom are very > slow in generating data. Therefore I would rather like a > /dev/frandom for fast, low quality randomness. Read from /dev/[u]random, use srandom(3) with that and then just get your low quality numbers from random(3).
> Thomas > ------------------------------------------------- > T h o m a s Z e h e t b a u e r ( TZ251 ) > PGP encrypted mail preferred - KeyID 96FFCB89 > mail pgp-key-request@hostmaster.org > -------------------------------------------------
HoraPe --- Horacio J. Peña horape@compendium.com.ar bofh@puntoar.net.ar horape@hcd.gov.ar
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |